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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

740 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL NOON EST FOR IREDELL... 

DAVIE...ROWAN...MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS... AND UNION COUNTIES IN 

NORTH CAROLINA...



URBAN AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS WARNING INCLUDE CHARLOTTE... MONROE... 

CONCORD... KANNAPOLIS... SALISBURY... STATESVILLE... AND MOCKSVILLE.



RAIN COVERED VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE WARNING AREA AT 740 AM.  MODERATE 

TO HEAVY RAIN WAS CONTRIBUTING TO HIGH WATER LEVELS IN MANY PLACES.  

NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PONDING WATER ON ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.  

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS.



SPOTTER REPORTS AND RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AS MUCH 

AS 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN PARTS OF DAVIE COUNTY.  CHURCH 

CREEK IN ROWAN COUNTY IS OVERFLOWING.  PARTS OF INTERSTATE 85 IN 

CHARLOTTE HAVE BEEN COVERED WITH WATER.  MOST OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY 

RECEIVED APPROXIMATELY 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT.



THE HEAVY RAIN IS GOING TO CONTINUE UNTIL LATE MORNING.  

THEREFORE... THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING WILL PERSIST.



DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS

SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT.

CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS.



DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD

BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE

SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER.



KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS... FORECASTS... AND 

WARNINGS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE RADIO 

OR TELEVISION STATION.



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